It was a grand wedding, held in a five-star hotel close to Diyawanna. The bride was the daughter of a white-collar bigwig holding very high secretarial status in the yahapalanaya administrative nerve-centre. In fact, he held high secretarial status under the previous regime as well.
A political appointee holding secretarial status of sorts in a Ministry handling the public purse had made it a practice to sign all official documents including agreements and vouchers in green ink. And the general audit who had come for the annual inspection had queried this irregular practice at the start of their work.
Government for some time had been buying ‘bada-irungu’ (sorghum) from the farmers in Rajarata as a relief measure. The authorities instructed a certain State-run enterprise to purchase ‘bada-irungu’ harvested during the last season as usual after releasing the required funds for the purpose.
How a uniformed bigwig found himself at the centre of a storm when a phone conversation he had with a ‘sir’ at a public function went public is no longer news. By the way, there had been much more to this drama than had met the public eye.
A certain person, who was holding a high office in the country’s foreign mission in the capital of a Western country had over the years, has made it a practice to deposit in his private bank account some of the remittances sent by the Foreign Ministry to meet the diplomatic mission’s financial commitments.
This female white-collar one attached to a commission connected to public service wields much political influence and she has turned the officials calling at this office seeking transfers to stations of their choice into a veritable gold mine.
A yahapalana bigwig holding a leadership position in Diyawannawa who was highly agitated over the JO move to expose ‘corrupt top ten’ in the government spoke to the livewire behind the move. Both being politicos from the upcountry happen to be long standing pals.
A certain chief purohita has launched a lottery purportedly to raise funds for a good cause beneficial to the entire province. School teachers, children and employees in government offices in the province are asked to buy the tickets of this lottery, they say.
A buddy of this top team member in yahapalanaya wanted to secure a particular job in a key enterprise in the country. And the better half of the top team member is a top executive in this enterprise. So this job seeker sought the help of his friendly political bigwig to secure the job he wanted.
A local politico in the deep South representing a main political party was recently appointed as the chief organizer of a constituency which had long been a stronghold of a prominent political family. This politico now thick in the party’s propaganda activities in the area is reportedly throwing parties for supporters where hard liquor flows like water.
A cold war going on between a senior purohita and the chief executive of a statutory body coming under his purview is one of the main topics being talked about in political circles these days. The duo has got into the habit of turning down each other’s official requests out of sheer spite, they say.
The Blue party had called for the explanation from the legal professor, the chairman of the new ‘Pohottuwa’ political party for founding a new political party and becoming its chairman while being a member of the Blue political party.
Reports from the North say that an ‘arbiter’ occupying a high chair in the administration of justice is planning to take to politics in a big way following in the footsteps of a political bigwig in the same province and with the latter’s blessings.
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